Faculty/Author Profile

Sarah E. Light

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

Assistant United States Attorney

New York City, NY, USA

EXPERIENCE
2001- Present: UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK New York, NYAssistant United States Attorney, Civil Division. Chief, Environmental Protection Unit. Handle complex civil litigation on behalf of the United States and its agencies. Won two bench trials under Federal Tort Claims Act and one jury trial under Title VII; successfully briefed and argued appeals in the Second Circuit, and numerous motions before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Honors: Recipient of awards from EPA and Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division for enforcement of Resource Conservation Recovery Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.

2005 - 2007 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW New York, NY Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. Taught legal writing and research to first-year law students.
2000 - 2001 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT New Haven, CT Law Clerk for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr.

Summer ACLU, NATIONAL IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS PROJECT New York, NY
1998 Legal Intern: Conducted legal research, wrote memos, and assisted in writing briefs on the due process rights of aliens, international and domestic causes of action for involuntary servitude, and discovery.